I’ve had a look at the latest Waterfield cases for the Kindle and posted my thoughts at The Gadgeteer. Waterfield has three Kindle cases: a basic open-ended sleeve, a sleeve with flap and back pocket, and a travel case with room for the Kindle and a bunch of accessories. Check out my review for pictures and more details…

As you can see, I have redesigned the theme of my blog. I’m not entirely happy with the color scheme, such as it is. I was kind of hoping for a look that was more subtle than the Web 2.0 pastels everyone uses these days, but I might end up switching from warm to cool colors soon. The body text face is intended to be Calibri, one of the new set that comes with Vista and the latest versions of Office. I was hoping to put Constantia with it as the serif face, but for some reason neither Safari nor Camino were rendering some characters correctly.

The main reason I’m even bothering to write about this is that I want to plug the 960 Grid System by Nathan Smith, which I am using here. It’s based on the idea that 960 pixels is not only a nice width for a web page — it fits on a 1024×768 display and is not too wide for comfort — but it can be easily subdivided into 12 or 16 chunks to build a page layout. So, you can easily have 2, 3, or 4 equal-width columns, or a combination of unequally-sized ones sized in units of 1/12th or 1/16th the width of the page. The base stylesheet for this defines classes you can apply to divs to produce whatever column layout you want, including stacking different column widths in different vertical parts of the page. It’s really quite simple and surprise-free, and the styles and demo code are available freely under both the GPL and MIT licenses.

In lieu of figuring out how to put a blogroll into my custom WordPress theme, I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that my friend Dan has also recently relaunched his blog at a new domain name. Today, he’s featuring a Flickr set of images from a Rush concert he recently attended in New Jersey. (He’s seen them three times this year. Lucky!)

Oops, I seem to have lost two years of blog posts that should be here. What? You say I haven’t actually posted anything in two years? Outrageous! Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

As you can see, I’ve made some changes to this site. I decided that it was about time to switch from Movable Type to WordPress. Given that, it also seemed appropriate to do a bit of redesigning at the same time. While it is far from perfect and I will undoubtedly tweak it some more, I’m happy with the new look, for now. I have decided not to import my old posts. I’ll probably be copying some of the old content over as time goes by, but my feeling at this point is that a completely fresh start is best — perhaps that will encourage me to post more often, instead of once every six months like I do now.